Just as Sukuna was closing in and about to finish Mahito off, he suddenly froze. Astonishment crossed his face, and he whipped his head around toward Mechamaru behind him.
"What the hell..." he muttered.
Itadori hurriedly asked, [What's wrong?]
Sukuna swallowed, looking conflicted.
"I... think... I suddenly sensed one of my Fingers again?"
"...And it's over by Mechamaru?"
Sukuna glanced in the direction Mahito had fled, then back toward Mechamaru, unsure which way to go next.
...He'd been chasing him for so long! Was he supposed to give up now??
Why did his Finger have to turn up at this critical moment? He hadn't even exorcised Mahito yet!
[Maybe we should head back first?-we'll have other chances to get Mahito, but we can't leave Mechamaru alone with the Finger!]
Itadori spoke anxiously. Remembering his upperclassmen and Aunt Yoshino, he worried that leaving Mechamaru with the Finger would put him in danger.
Sukuna let out a strained breath.
He was right... the Finger mattered more...
Damn it... one step short again! Why was exorcising Mahito so hard?
Furious, he raised his hand and sent a wave of crisscrossing Heavenly Net Dismantles skimming along the ground and shooting upward toward Mahito. Without even waiting to see the result, he turned to go find his Finger.
Seeing that the Finger had drawn Sukuna away, Kenjaku breathed a sigh of relief. From a distance, he had remotely controlled a cursed spirit to set the Finger down and undo its sealing.
He summoned a new cursed spirit, retrieved the barely half-intact remains of Mahito's hacked-up body, recovered the nail tools for the "commissioned" Curtain prepared for the Shibuya incident, and immediately withdrew.
*Mahito had at least experienced Simple Domain now, so his strength should still have room to grow. The test of the commissioned Curtain